If you didn’t know, yesterday was J. S. Bach’s birthday. I didn’t grow up listening to classical music–my clearest childhood recollections are of Tennessee Ernie Ford and Mahalia Jackson. Later on I became a fan of Elton John and of Emerson,...

By the early 1960s three issues divided the Conservative Baptist Movement. First was the question of separation, especially in view of neoevangelicalism and Billy Graham’s tactic of “cooperative evangelism.” Second was eschatology—many Conservative Baptists had moved...

Did you know that you can browse the Codex Sinaiticus (Aleph) online? King James Only advocates sometimes insist that the shorter ending of Mark removes the resurrection of Jesus (this argument was made in one of those ridiculous Pensacola videos back in the 1990s)....

Bruce Metzger’s The Text of the New Testament is a standard tool in NT textual criticism. The work is now in its fourth edition. I’ve just learned that it is available in several electronic formats, free for downloading at Archive.org.